It's

Tom Williams and this is episode 217 of marathon talk. I'm going to do. So, On this week's show there's news of Bath, Silverston and Redding Half Marath

Ryan Hall's running Boston, the first non-African born runner to go sub-27 minutes for

10,000 meters. Chris Silinsky is running a marathon 2. We've got the second part of

our interview with UK running legend Bill Adcox, Tony pops in with his trials. Training talk takes you to the max.

Tom, what you been up to?

God I've been up to loads actually. I've been logging plenty of miles just slightly short of 80 miles last week I think I was 78 and a half

Man you really are going for this marathon big style, aren't you? Yeah, it it's good I have to say I'm enjoying it I'm sort of you know I went through a bit of a

slump you know regular listeners to the show will know you know I had five or six weeks

where it just didn't go right and I remember I was off to South Africa and I struggled on the plane flight and traveling and I just had doms and it was just not good. But yeah, I seemed to last week was good. I mean I come off the back of that 24 mile while I did last Sunday and then I did 6 by a K on Tuesday.

And they were uphill. Each K was slightly uphill.

Good work. Yeah, and I ran them I think I averaged 330

334 333 or something 80 miles is a big week that's I haven't run 80 miles in a

week for decades.

What is the longest? I was thinking this the other day actually.

What is the longest? Have you ever done a hundred mile week?

What's your longest week?

My longest week ever?

I think it's about 110 and I the longest... What were you training for at the time?

Like 10 K's? Okay. The longest spell I think I did six weeks, six or eight weeks averaging over a hundred miles in a row

houses when I was it's a lot isn't it I mean I did look last week I looked I was thinking about my auto marathon and I thought do I do

I'm really enjoying the fixing it's fixing a schedule do I do the 12 week version then I thought

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